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deemed. the ripple effect from. north korea. the international punishment. is good to have you with us here today. with news around the world. on the second anniversary of the egyptian revolution people are once again. square . to celebrate thousands are gathering in the center of cairo for a fresh government it demands very similar to those that led to regime change now two years ago the eve of the anniversary was marked with. dozens injured. bullets were used to disperse the protesters try to tear down

a wall. true explains what's driving those who fought for change two years ago right back out onto the streets. just of egypt tahrir square surrounded by murals of slain protesters law graduates tarik talks about his brother who was killed during the two thousand and eleven revolution two years on tarek says the country has yet to see the changes that his brother died fighting for instead in a deepening economic crisis many ordinary egyptians are barely able to get by. stuff or was killed there close to the course or are i need street in parliament he was shot dead with three bullets on the twenty eighth of january so far there has been no justice i'm twenty seven years old and i don't have any work now there are a lot of people like me who are unemployed there are some people reach the point where they don't have food to eat. right now youth unemployment levels in egypt have reached

a staggering seventy seven percent which means that young people like tarek will be unable to pay for even their most basic needs even though they fought in a january twenty five revolution which demanded bread freedom and social justice two thousand and thirteen is expected to be an even harder year for egypt the people who live in these impoverished areas in cairo will be the hardest hit. while a senior economics commentator at the egyptian shrewd newspaper says the economy has significantly suffered after two years of political turmoil the problem is that the government is using the same policies to deal with this situation now especially after the i.m.f. loan with the austerity measures taxes mainly on the poor not dealing with the corruption real corruption and corruption. that was something as chronic with the mubarak regime till now with the economy at a standstill and vital subsidies being cut in twenty thirteen families living on

a few dollars a day will be on able to put food on the table or a roof over their heads this is despite president mohamed morsi promising to tackle key. issues like bread and fuel shortages but it is not just daily economic hardship weighing on people's minds many say important goals of the twenty eleven eighteen they are pricing have yet to be realized but if we started on january twenty fifth which marks. there have been no serious efforts toward reform the police no serious effort to cleanse or to deal with the legal structure of the traditional structure that we inherited from mubarak and that continues to make abuses possible and to prevent any efforts holding abusers accountable for crimes of the past january twenty third team has already seen mass protests across the country as egyptians continue to put pressure on the new president to make their demands a reality the second anniversary of the revolution is for many not so much a celebration but

a continuation of the struggle to basic rights. for our team kyra. let's turn our attention not about of america where a cia veteran and former chief of counterterrorist operations in pakistan so expected to be sentenced to thirty months in jail john kiriakou was found guilty of leaking classified information to a reporter he first became known to the public in two thousand and seven when he was the first government official to admit waterboarding was torture earlier this week kiriakou explained exactly what it is that's driving him. i've never gained anything through what i've said publicly so i lost everything and i believe i was prosecuted not for what i did but for who i am a cia officer. who said george was wrong and ineffective and went against the grain i'm not naive i know that national security and intelligence and

counterterrorism agree is a very tough arena i knew that there was a risk to what i was doing. but i also know that to be seeing another person and serializing human rights abuses under a legal paper is not the american way and it's not something that as americans we should be engaged in we are not a lowest common denominator country measuring what is right by what others do and the american way stands for something and it is not torture i never tortured anybody. but i'm heading to prison while the tortures of the lawyers are papered over it and the people who deceived and the man who destroyed the proof of the tapes will never face justice. he watching our t.v. and there's a towering inferno want to skyscraper that's under construction in the heart of moscow's business trip i think one person has been injured and hundreds of workers evacuated from the building after a blaze started on the twenty third floor many were pictures for you just had on

line two or three dot com for that. plus the founder of file sharing service mega upload he tells us here at r.t. how he's actually getting around the law with a brand new start up and here are some of the highlights of the full interview you can see later this hour or again on our web site. i'm a businessman i'm driven by the success of achieving something in the business world ok that's not a crime there's nothing wrong with that the government is quite exposed here because they went in was completely prosecutorial abuse and overreach and ignoring due process ignoring our rights spying on os illegal search warrants

illegal restraining orders illegal spying and then i mean the whole all picture. to be clear that it's right to an independence referendum as the region's government seeks a breakaway from spain and the vote could actually take place next year however madrid has already rejected the idea saying an independence poll is against the spanish constitution and not a k.-o. spokesperson for the european partnership for independence says catalonia leaving without sleep benefit both sides of the equation does so declare a shot what he has done is just a form of that is something that democrats are writing now and that is that catalonia is a suffering nation we just declared that was sauce for money and this popularity we all know that's the case but for money that don't we are a political and the little sucker in subject it's no way to progress when you have

latched to be something that you are not and it was from the three young cats and only our nation's by their own we are not the spanish so it's a would be interest and it would be united when we are a separate set in good terms. of the optimism is not shared by everyone in spain colors deck last social or just at the university he says catalonia as government is pursuing dangerous policies which may ultimately undermine the region's charges or to go out and survive on its own. carnivals come really cheap and for the moment it's really just a bunch of posturing it's mostly signing declarations and saying you know. when. the party that's currently in the government with the help of the republican left. decides that you know they're going to privatized that water and privatized natural resources in catalonia when they're going to get rid of all of their public health care and privatized that what they're basically doing is auctioning off the

territory auctioning off all of the public and state institutions that they supposedly want all of the institutions that you build with sovereignty they're auction them off to private investors so you know the question is can they be can they be independent on their own materially they could if they weren't you know auctioning things off and and granting more sovereignty then the people of catalonia. so the government know how they feel and how they have been feeling for some time over one million of them flooded into boss alone or last year to stake a claim for independence if you go to see you can get many of the images from that event. north korea has threatened its southern neighbor with quote physical counter measures if indeed it joins the latest round of u.n. sanctions and a stark warning came just a day off to north korea announced it would conduct a third nuclear test saying it's

a told they can missile programs are in fact targeting america brian becker of the antiwar coalition he says the situation on the korean peninsula is extremely volatile however gangs that recent actions could actually be keeping the balance of peace. korea is the most heavily militarized part of the planet the u.s. won't sign the landmine treaty one of the few countries not to be a signatory to it because they say they may need it in korea there's constant incidence in north korea one of those could blow up and become a major conflagration it's a serious problem every time any country says that they are going to defend themselves from the united states the united states you're an aggressor and thus we have the new excuse the new pretext to up the ante but i think when you look at the whole picture you could see that north korea's sort of tenacious militancy even if it appears to be bombastic in the west and the way it's presented in the western media it's had the effect of preventing what would have been otherwise i think a war between the united states and its allies south korea in north korea that was

a danger that existed in one thousand nine hundred four a very real danger it started again when bush came into office scratching scotching the normalization process that was under way during clinton so i don't think north korea is sort of. impression that it's prepared to fight is actually accelerating the conflict if anything i think it could lead to new negotiations. to the nitty gritty of the. plight. of the push. the issue. is payday loans. with. money.

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for more good this is on it's here with me rory sushi zones plight is the subject to close proceedings in the plus surroundings of davos it comes amid wide attention in europe as the u.k. prime minister tries to smooth over times with his e.u. partners they've been moderately angered by his promise to let britain hold a referendum. economic forum for us we've got the e.c.b. president mario draghi he has taken to the stage to address europe's current issues which includes stagnates growth this comes a day after prime minister david cameron from britain he was talking about how to do with tax avoiders and also we had german chancellor angela merkel she was saying there can be no only way and no letup in the spending cuts despite european union warning that there is social unrest in the likes of greece and also her homeland as

well germany where people to have been protesting against wages now the spades unemployment rate for the youth will sixty percent that's really sent shivers down the spines here in davos yesterday and that was another issue and today we're also going to be talking about own breasts in the arab world as well particularly syria what can be done to really improve the future for this part of the world so i'm going to be providing we have live coverage here in davos to root out the day and i'll be back later with the business person at six thirty and eight thirty g.m.t. . all right turning our attention now to washington where u.s. senator john kerry looks almost to be a certainty as he's expected to be the next secretary of state he breezed through his confirmation hearing but here's the current chairman of the committee what. ok we will replace hillary clinton who are stepping down although a few analysts believe he'll do much to change the current course of u.s.

foreign policy. well the clinton legacy is pretty much i think the legacy of american wars and a counterterrorism policy that has usurped the usual prerogatives of the state department john kerry will not be able to fundamentally change the course of u.s. foreign policy which is again set in motion a set in stone if you will because of the power that the cia and the military really wield over the direction of u.s. relations with so much of the of the world particularly the middle east and now increasingly in africa as well as well as of course south asia so every virtually every important issue that he's going to deal with. you know in those parts of the world will be. issues which have been essentially preempted already the policy set

by the military and by the cia and i think that there is very little chance that john kerry will challenge any of the fundamental directions of u.s. policy such as for example the drone war in pakistan. it is exactly this controversial use of drones to target terrorists that has become the focus of a major u.n. investigation human rights activists are highly critical of the use saying it often results in wider civilian deaths and officially acknowledged and aside from the lack of transparency the whole legality of the time to give is now being questioned as aunties and i still see as courts. what we have going on as a group of top notch international law specialist spearheaded by the un special rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism launching this investigation into the drone attacks carried out by the united states in recent years there are going to be looking into the drone strikes taking place over somalia yemen of get a stand pakistan and the actions of israel when it comes to the occupied

territories the group plans to look into from twenty to thirty specific strikes one of the areas they're going to concentrate on are the so-called double tap strikes where rescuers for example people running to save victims of a drone strike were attacked by a follow up or are people going to funerals this is been something that's been a big concern lately with dozens of people dying in those incidents so this is what they're going to look into this is something that's going to last a while they will look into the numbers of casualties the identities of casualties and really the legal liabilities that might follow and this is something that we're not really expecting any kind of legal serious accusations to come out of but one of the things they're looking into is whether or not work crime is a term that can be used a very strong term so this is something that we're going to have to find out when this reports finally reveals in the months to come what prompted this investigation is of course growing concerns that the increased attacks and killing civilians and children on the ground this is something that's been

a big concern for years this is something that's causing huge anti-american sentiment in places like yemen specifically where recently in the latest drone strike two children were killed and we saw a group of countries russia. china and pakistan addressed the un human rights council in saying look we need to investigate this further so this investigation is now being launched and it's also you know the numbers really speaking for themselves one hundred seventy eight children died just in yemen in recent years eight hundred ninety one civilian since the year two thousand and four just in pakistan so this is something that needs to be addressed and the goal of this particular investigation is exactly that. are trying to kick off the day with a very angry libya. by a british foreign office warning that u.k. citizens should leave the city of benghazi officials said there was no evidence to suggest any specific or imminent threat to westerners other countries including germany canada and the netherlands all followed the move with their own warnings it was last year that an attack on the u.s.

consulate in benghazi swords and three other americans killed. at least seventeen people have been killed and thirty four injured when two buses collided in bolivia police said the crash happened when one of the vehicles crossed into the wrong lane this is the third such incident in the country this week i believe you are does have the highest mortality rate from road accidents in all of south america. in advance so any time you needed payday loans have become a burden for the u.k. government tries to keep people away from buying so offering a faster but expensive buck to surf looks at why it is so hard to break the bad money that. payday loans tools have become a common sight in britain's towns and cities with the threat of a triple dip recession hanging over them more and more cash strapped families looking for a quick way to make ends meet with

a loan from one go dot com you can borrow up to one thousand pounds for up to thirty one days. people can actually just turn on. wine access online ask for two with longer especially up to four hundred pounds could be in the bank within fifteen minutes the find out pay later culture has landed britain's with a whopping one point four trillion pounds in loans and credit cards the northeast in particular has seen a big increase rethink in the number of the payday loans that are popping up on the high street is that here in this part of the sunblock you can see there's not just one of these payday loan stores but see right next door to. this area is one of the poorest in the u.k. and when you take a closer look at these stores promises of instant cash they come with sky high interest rates. then there's no such thing as easy money but the people with

financial options and these authors can appear to be lifelines the working providing death advice states what takes just moments to approve can lead to years of debt misery what happens is if i haven't got the money at the end of the month to be a repeat then of course the rest will continue on and then we're going to want to try and pay off the period first. saw the most try one go first go on to quick witted want to clear and it's just a never ending cycle and people are getting stuck in this trial. this practice of rolling over a loan has become increasingly common and with some companies not carrying out proper credit checks people he simply don't have the means to pay back the money and end up with their debt quickly spiraling we went from being one of the representatives the leading payday loan providers why the industry seems to be lending so irresponsibly it doesn't make any sense to lend to somebody who can't

afford to pay you back so the members i represent spend an awful lot of investment in the best technology to make the best assessment of somebodies affordability at the front end of the process we don't want to mentor somebody who can't pay back and we don't want to get people into financial difficulty but these are areas of the united kingdom that some of the poorest communities so that seems quite targeted why are they choosing these areas where you'd expect that people wouldn't be able to pay back that money what you're finding is these numbers are setting up in secondary high streets where the rates are lower they're also setting up where there's a demand the situation has changed from when we used to be able to be flooded with all sorts of offers a credit to the fact that we unless we've got. an exemplary credit history we can't going to access to credit the government says it's conducting an extensive review of the payday lending sector with this site on tighter regulation but in the

meantime and dave has some clear advice for anyone thinking about taking out a payday loan nor. new or avoiding the why. so r.t. reporting from sunderland. part of more international news in about half an hour's time but after a short break it is our exclusive interview with kim dotcom the founder of megaupload on

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a senator right and also worked as an anti-piracy you know manager for the b.s.a. business office or c. asian which is basically like the m.p.a. but for software companies so and also the timing is very interesting you know. the election time. fundraisers in hollywood set for february march april and you know they had to be some kind of plan b. and turn it in for sopa and you know hollywood is a very important contributor to bombers campaign not just with money but also was the media support you know they control a lot of media celebrity endorsements and all that so you know i'm sure election plays an important role the relationships of the people that are in charge of this case play a important rule and of course we have facts that we want to present at our